Saturday, March 21, 2009

Spring is officially here, and the snow has finally melted... AGAIN. To go along with my excitement, I've decided to take up a new sport. Tennis! I've been playing the past couple of weeks indoor, and finally got outside today to give it a go. I'm not exactly magnificent... YET..., but I'm getting better and better each time I play, and having a lot of fun. Anyone up for a game?

I'm starting to get the hang of the backhand, but unfortunately my forehand still needs work.

I don't know why this is, but I hold my breath when I swing at anything, ha ha...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Ok, so I pride myself on my impeccable immune system. Very rarely am I ever sick. I've never had strep, pink eye (sorry Tony), an ear infection, or any sickness that requires prescribed medication and/or a visit to the doctor. I seldom get headaches, or even "cramps" for that matter. Other than the frequent soccer wounds (not my fault), I am a very healthy person. So yesterday, as I bitterly watched the snow continue to fall, my motivation to exercise was declining rapidly, and all I wanted to do was go back home, get in my sweat pants, and crawl into bed. For whatever reason, the "season gods" decided to play a sick joke and dumped 2 feet of snow on an almost bare ground, and yes... I took it personal. So I came up with my own ailment. I have come down with a serious case of the "snow flu". The miserable weather was affecting me, and I was going to let it. So far, I've been "sick" for 2 days. I could not muster up the will or energy to exercise, so no running or P90X for me... I was on strike. Apparently this type of sickness has an adverse affect on one's appetite, so my diet has gone out the window as well. I did, however, manage to play a little tennis tonight with my good friend "Stuart" and my niece Mia, but let's face it... I suck at tennis, and ended up nailing Mia in the cheek with the ball. Luckily the mark didn't last TOO long, and a black eye was narrowly avoided. Sorry Mia. I am hoping I'll pull through it and get back on the road, or... Who am I kidding?... the treadmill tomorrow. Pray for me ya'll...

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"There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt." - Reality Bites

"You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place." - Garden State

"Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. You know that. That's what the day's supposed to be all about, right? Torture." - Home For The Holidays

"If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you like." - Garden State